Holochroa Explained

Holochroa is a monotypic moth genus in the family Geometridae. Its only species, Holochroa dissociarius, is found in North America. The species was described by George Duryea Hulst in 1887 and he described the genus nine years later in 1896.^[1]

Subspecies

There are two subspecies:

• Holochroa dissociarius dissociarius

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• Holochroa dissociarius varia Rindge, 1961

^{c g b}Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = BugGuide

Further reading

• Book: Beadle . David. Leckie . Seabrooke. 2012. Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History. 0547238487.
• Book: Covell . Charles V. Jr.. 2005. A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North America. Special Publication Number 12. Virginia Museum of Natural History. 1-884549-21-7.
• Book: Grote . Aug.R.. Robinson . C.T.. 1868. List of the Lepidoptera of North America. American Entomological Society.
• Heppner. J.B.. 2003. Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and catalog. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Areas. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. 17. 0066-8036. 2019-04-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20180423112356/http://freshfromflorida.s3.amazonaws.com/arthropods-of-florida-vol-17.pdf. 2018-04-23. dead.
• Book: Hodges . Ronald W.. 1983. Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: Including Greenland. E.W. Classey and The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation. 9780860960164.
• Pitkin . Linda M.. 2002. Neotropical ennomine moths: a review of the genera (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 135. 2–3. 121–401. 0024-4082.
• Pohl . Greg. Patterson . Bob. Pelham . Jonathan. 2016. Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. 10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287. free.
• Book: Powell . Jerry A.. Opler . Paul A.. 2009. Moths of Western North America. University of California Press. 9780520251977.
• Yamamoto . Satoshi. Sota . Teiji. 2007. Phylogeny of the Geometridae and the evolution of winter moths inferred from a simultaneous analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44. 711–723. 1055-7903.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Savela . Markku . Holochroa Hulst, 1896 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . April 2, 2019.